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by drats 15y ago
This is totally irrelevant to HN and is one of the issues on the Internet most likely to start a flame war. Flagged. georgecmu you appear to have been around HN a good while, which surprises me as it's more than long enough to know this i
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by drats 15y ago
Seems to be a very direct clone, down to the colours, but using a different back-end system.
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by drats 15y ago
I always get the feeling that they are really trying to prove to themselves, through proving it to others, that they didn't need to get acquired and that ruby webapps are way more interesting than working on self-driving cars or new crazy s
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by drats 15y ago
Speculation: you could easily get to the #1 spot on HN with a blog entitled "From Wizards to Rockstars: what's wrong with the motivation of the current generation of technologists".
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by drats 15y ago
Can't tell if you are serious. Who uses AIR? I've never seen it.
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by drats 15y ago
I am sure the current citizens of the EU don't know it yet either, nor will they be consulted when it comes.
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by drats 15y ago
Using "EU" to refer to Europe is about the same as using "USA" to refer to North America. And, in this case, tagging an article about something in Canada with "USA".
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by drats 15y ago
I didn't know about /dev/tcp/host/port, has a nice Plan 9-like feel.
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by drats 15y ago
Pypy most commonly refers to the python implementation anyway, as can be easily seen by going to the pypy website[1]. Daslch abused the fact that "pypy" points to two things to make a meaningless nitpick. Now you are claiming that I have cl
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by drats 15y ago
Well you are being a bit nitpicky as pypy is both the python implementation and the JIT/Rpython/framework bit. What I mean was someone holding very close to the python implementation in almost everything (syntax etc.) but streamlining it/br
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by drats 15y ago
Looks very much like a python without the legacy and a touch of ruby, ipython as the default shell, better multiprocessing, better os/system access, decorators and mathematics. Nice clear documentation too. Given how similar to python they
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by drats 15y ago
I am really beginning to deeply loathe link-bait titles as they are guaranteed to introduce straw men and unnecessary arguments into the comments.
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by drats 15y ago
I've been around the Internet for a long long time and that's the first time I've seen "SCNR". As I had to search to see what it was I'd suggest you expand it in future usage. You are right in the point you make though, continental Europe i
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by drats 15y ago
For those wishing to ingrain Vim keys into their muscle memory, and improve their browsing experience, I recommend the Vimium[1] extension to Chrome. Additionally, Firefox has Vimperator[2] and Opera has VimOperate[3] (not as many features
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by drats 15y ago
I agree, but I flagged for the headline.
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by drats 15y ago
I would like to see a review as well, they get mentioned a lot but I've not actually seen a recommendation.
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by drats 15y ago
Has anyone done a study of how much this is damaging the tourism industry in the USA? I have 1001 places I want to go, but all those in the USA shifted down a lot lower on the list after they started a lot of the airport security/TSA measur
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by drats 15y ago
"Has police kill union boss"? I don't see that anywhere in the article, some people think it's the right of unions not only to strike but also to use force (to block people entering workplaces). If they are legally not allowed to do that (c
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by drats 15y ago
I agree with you telling them to get serious, but I would add that it's not funny (it's not funny on Reddit either).
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by drats 15y ago
After two iterations of this I can se it being pretty good for my parents as they will be able to say "bookmark" or "back" to the voice recognition in the browser and not have to worry about the UI much at all.
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by drats 15y ago
Completely ridiculous. Flagged.
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by drats 15y ago
This is just the type of blog post that we don't need on HN. People said some mean things in that thread, they basically all got downvoted and the top comment is one admonishing them (so do we need it to be dug up again by this article?). I
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by drats 15y ago
No-one besides the OED.. There is no central authority for English, but if there were one it would be the OED. Besides, there are copious examples of people using it in that way in English for half a century: the OED catalogues these so it'
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by drats 15y ago
It "isn't used to to mean a arduous task in general" says who? The OED defines it as a "troublesome business, a piece of hard work" with examples of that particular usage going back to 1964 in the Economist, who I presume wouldn't have used
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by drats 15y ago
I don't recall the German government pursuing claims for the lands they considered their lebensraum a few short decades after WWII. I don't recall them holding rallies and strident speeches calling for their return. I don't recall them enli
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by drats 15y ago
Why wouldn't people compare Kirchner to Hitler exactly? Isn't Kirchner's saber-rattling over the Falklands a "Lebensraum" argument like Hitler's? The British claim to the islands is older than Argentina itself and more importantly the islan
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by drats 15y ago
Is there a public database of HN links (rather than multiple people crawling PG's server)?
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by drats 15y ago
Exactly the same where I am. I have vanilla ICS on a Nexus S with a pre-pay that I can leave for a better deal at any time. This guy's article is totally off looked at from a global perspective. The billions rising out of poverty into the g
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Screenshots of some of the giants at the beginning (i.imgur.com)
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by drats 15y ago
We really need a way of telling when the main link has been modified. The only reason I didn't downvote JonnieCache is because I know his name, because he is a regular contributor, and so I double checked that the url and his comment were t

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